Subject: Re: bootstrapping 425t problems
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: port-hp300
Date: 10/04/1996 11:25:59
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> bert@xpilot.org  wrote:
>  > A 425t which I want to boot via the Ethernet doesn't seem to send the
>  > correct boot requests.  Here's the "tcpdump ether host 08:00:09:17:0e:99":
>  > 
>  >     04:33:10.763459 8:0:9:17:e:99 > 9:0:9:0:0:4 sap f8 ui/C len=43
>  >                              0000 0006 0806 0901 0000 0000 00ff ff00
>  >                              0248 5053 3330 3020 2020 2020 2020 2020
>  >                              2020 2020 2000 00ee ee11 11
> 
> At first glance, those look like Apollo boot requests. ie: "netman" of
> Domain/OS fame. I'm not sure though. Is the machine in Domain mode?

Actually, the ... bytes 3-6 of the packet tell me that this is indeed
rboot requests.  I don't know how to configure rbootd on anything other
than a NetBSD machine, however; is it necessary to add the MAC address of
the 425t to an rbootd configuration file?  (It is with the NetBSD rbootd.)

--scott